10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2016
Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with years of research under his belt, doesn’t quite achieve perfection with this book on the totality of that strange entity, the bird’s egg, but he makes a valiant effort of it and comes away with a very interesting book indeed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. Their goal?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Woodpecker Finch using a tool. The behavior was inherent.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Endangered. Extinction.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
Where does the female Emperor Penguin go after she has produced that one egg and handed it over to the male for incubation? An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The designers employ graphic design tools of color, font, icon, and photographic illustration to produce pages that both look pleasing to the eye and help the user navigate the book. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. GRAPHIC DESIGN.
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